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2525 points hownottowrite | 1 comments | 08 Oct 19 09:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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rjzzleep ◴[08 Oct 19 11:24 UTC] No.21191018[source]▶
Have we all forgotten when Mozilla replaced the CTO with a long history of internet freedom work to replace him with a marketing director and the disaster that followed?

Are we going to keep trampling on all our freedoms in the name of ... freedom(?) and then blame it all on China?

EDIT: I knew some people were going to try to spin it into something it wasn't.

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Steltek ◴[08 Oct 19 11:26 UTC] No.21191038[source]▶
Was that the same lover of freedom that campaigned to take away the freedom of others?
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whatshisface ◴[08 Oct 19 12:28 UTC] No.21191473[source]▶
If you think back to before gay marriage was accepted as a culturally obvious fact, some of the arguments against it involved hating gays, but others didn't. Without the ability to tell which beliefs actually motivated his donation, it is not possible to discern if he was against gays or not. (I'll refrain from giving any specific examples in order to avoid starting that debate again, but I think most of us can remember that time in fair detail.)
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monocasa ◴[08 Oct 19 12:54 UTC] No.21191702[source]▶
There weren't good arguments though, it was a rehash of the same 'debate' forty years prior on whether people of different races should be allowed to get married.
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1. SkyBelow ◴[08 Oct 19 15:15 UTC] No.21193161[source]▶
And expect it to be rehashed again.

You know, 40+ years ago, if you brought up legalizing gay marriage many would have seen it as attacking interracial marriage. Even 5 to 10 years ago I met many people who held the view that it was an insult and attack on interracial marriage to bring up gay marriage.

Today, if I bring up possible future rehashings, I think people would react the same, thinking instead I was attacking and insulting gay marriage. I wonder how long in the future before we see history repeat again.